Beschreibung:
This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity, starting with its Zionist ideological origins and tracing the path up to the present, as Israel struggles with what it means to be a post-ideological Mediterranean country.
This book is a detailed and comprehensive work which reviews the origins of Israel's Mediterranean identity
PART I: IDENTITY ISRAEL TOWARDS A MEDITERRANEAN IDENTITY Mediterranean Multi-Culturalism A Bridge Over Mediterranean Water PART II: SPACE Between Levantism and Mediterranism Mediterranean Humanism Camus and the Israelis PART III: POLITICS Mediterraneans or Crusaders? Mediterranean Myths Politics of Political Despair or Mediterranean Dialogue? PART IV: SOURCES David Ben-Gurion: Israel and the Sea Jacqueline Kahanoff: Reflections of a Levantine Jew